PhD Oral Defense: Transposon-assisted functional genomics of malting quality QTLs in barley
PhD Oral Defense of Surinder Singh, Department of Plant Science
Barley is considered as a significant industrial crop with growing role in feed, food, and bio-products especially as malt for brewing and distilling industry. Consistency in quality of malt is one of the major components in beer production. Malting quality in barley is a multifarious phenotype that combines a large number of interrelated components, each of which has a complex inheritance, thus hinder genetic improvement in this important trait. Genetic mapping studies identified more than 250 QTL’s (Qualitative trait loci) associated with 19 malting traits. However, limited studies have been conducted to identify genes associated with these QTLs. Map-based cloning and transposons tagging are the main approaches successfully used for gene identification and characterization.